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Cover Story

Bangladesh
The First Major Victim of Climate Change

The Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released on the 2nd of February 2007 and as Achim Steiner, the head of the UN environment programme said, “This day marks the removal from the debate over whether human action has anything to do with climate change.” Finally after passing the blame around mankind woke up to the truth that we changed the planet and it was now on an irreversible 'highway to extinction'.

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